{"id":76,"date":"2005-07-20T22:58:28","date_gmt":"2005-07-21T06:58:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myadportfolio.com\/wordpress\/?p=76"},"modified":"2005-07-21T23:00:30","modified_gmt":"2005-07-22T07:00:30","slug":"tattooed-broccoli","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myadportfolio.com\/wordpress\/tattooed-broccoli\/","title":{"rendered":"Tattooed Broccoli?"},"content":{"rendered":"

There’s a new labeling technology out there for those high-tech grocery items: fruits and vegetables. No more little stickers.<\/p>\n

No, now it’s laser tattooing. The New York Times has an article on the new process.<\/a> It is being developed by Durand-Wayland, a fruit grower and distributor in Georgia. The new method will eventually allow tracking produce from the grower to you, for both food safety and distribution efficiency. <\/p>\n

Apparently, many customers are annoyed by those little stickers. They either can’t remove them or they damage the produce too much by removing them. (My idea of a vegetable is ketchup on my burger, so I’m not bothered by the stickers.)<\/p>\n

The stickers are PLUs or price lookup stickers. They carry information about exactly what kind of produce you’re buying. <\/p>\n

But the new laser tattoos can contain far more information than the troublesome stickers, and they can be scanned as well. The scanner will recognize a Bosc or a Bartlett pear, or an ordinary Fuji apple from an organically-grown one.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

There’s a new labeling technology out there for those high-tech grocery items: fruits and vegetables. No more little stickers. No, now it’s laser tattooing. The New York Times has an article on the new process. It is being developed by Durand-Wayland, a fruit grower and distributor in Georgia. The new method will eventually allow tracking […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myadportfolio.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myadportfolio.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myadportfolio.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myadportfolio.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myadportfolio.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=76"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myadportfolio.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myadportfolio.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myadportfolio.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myadportfolio.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}